Charly 3D Tutors

Hair cards are one of the most common ways to bring hair into real-time engines and games, but building them by hand, strand by strand, is slow and hard to iterate on. In this tutorial, Marsel Khadiyev walks through how to build a full hair card setup in Ornatrix procedurally, starting from a raw scalp groom and ending with an exportable hair card atlas that combines both scalp hair and eyebrows. Why go procedural A manual hair card workflow usually means placing individual cards by hand and re-doing that work every time the hairstyle changes. The procedural approach in Ornatrix keeps every step as an operator in the stack, so nothing is locked in. Strand count, card width, texture assignment and color can all be revisited at any point without rebuilding the groom from scratch. Building the base groom The workflow starts from Ornatrix's New from Templates option, selecting the Human template to load a pre-fitted scalp. This template includes two separate parts, the scalp ...

The Next Evolution of Grooming in Cinema 4D Ornatrix for Cinema 4D V4 is here, bringing a major update to procedural hair, fur, and feather grooming directly inside Maxon Cinema 4D . The release focuses on giving C4D artists a fully non-destructive workflow , from raw guides to a finished, production-ready groom, without leaving the C4D pipeline. What's New in Ornatrix C4D V4 Curved strand extension with the Length Operator Brush Textures Merge Operator overlap resolution and blending Mesh from Strands group meshing Automatic hair texture generation Warp Roots Clump Manipulators Frizz Scale Randomness groom_Color export to Unreal Engine via Alembic New procedural hair grooming workflows Curved Sinks in Surface Comb Why This Matters for C4D Artists Ornatrix has historically been strongest on 3ds Max and Maya , so a major version bump for Cinema 4D is a significant step for the platform. The new export path to Unreal Engine via Alembic , carrying groom color ...